Data

There are 13 active cases in Nova Scotia.

The data comes from daily reports from the Nova Scotia Government which I record in a Github Repo.

It’s also useful to track active cases which are all cases which haven’t recovered yet.

I stole this plot from an excellent data visualization of covid trends. Each point is a day and it shows the sum of new cases in the previous five days against the number of total cases. I chose a five day sum because that’s about the mean incubation period for COVID-19.

Tests

Next we look at tests. The first one shows how great the microbiology lab has been in ramping up testing capacity. This is incredible and they deserve a great deal of thanks from all of us. I would be sending gift baskets of home made saurkraut and miso if that didn’t violate social distancing rules.

The last thing to look at is the positive rate for our testing. This is useful because we want the positive test rate to stay below like 2% before reopening parts of the province.

Raw data

Here is the raw data I collect, please let me know if I’ve made any mistakes in recording this data.